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Free speech advocate 'in hot seat'
By Wilson Johwa. No sooner had she joined the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), than Ayesha Kajee was thrust into the middle of the tussle over press freedom. Ms Kajee took over as director of the FXI on July 1, coming from the University of…
Author: Business Day
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Spit for money: SA's illegal trade in TB-infected saliva
Original Source Tuberculosis sufferers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, were found to be selling samples of their sputum to healthy people to pass off as their own in a scam to gain medical grants. An investigation by the West Cape News identified people with TB charging between R50…
Author: Guardian News and Media
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Why the 'Senior Voting Bloc' is a Myth
Original Source Editor’s Note: While exit-polls may show that those aged 60 and older favored John McCain over Barack Obama on election day, closer analysis shows that the elderly are as diverse in politics as they are in almost every other social sphere. Paul Kleyman…
Author: New America Media
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Segal receives grant for aging-related research
Original Source Neil Segal, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.18 million grant from the Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Program. Segal…
Author: Media-Newswire.com
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The Road Ahead for Progressives: Back to Basics
by Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava Twenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America’s politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said. First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic…
Author: The Nation
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Brave New Films Launches Diversity Fellowship
Award winning documentary company partners with The Atlantic Philanthropies to train people of color in the areas of film and social media Culver City, California (August 12, 2015) – Production Company Brave New Films, headed by award winning filmmaker Robert Greenwald has partnered with The Atlantic…
Author: Brave New Films
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Trayvon Martin Ruling Should Unleash Nonprofit Action
Joshua Trujillo/AP Images/SeattlePI.com By Vince Stehle The senseless killing of Trayvon Martin and the not-guilty verdict handed down in the case against George Zimmerman send troubling signals about race, justice, and gun violence in America and give fresh urgency to an important agenda for nonprofits…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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FOMACS Launches New Web Site
FOMACS web site Launched in March 2007, The Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) is a collaborative public media project, producing film, photographic, digital storytelling, radio, animation and print stories on the topic of immigration and integration in Ireland, with the aim of reaching and…
Author: FOMACS
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Exposés on BP Spill and Afghanistan Win Polk Awards
Investigative reports that exposed the devastating environmental and economic impact of the oil spill last year in the Gulf of Mexico and leadership failings in America’s military mission in Afghanistan were among the winners of 13 George Polk Awards for 2010 announced on Monday by Long Island University. Correspondents of…
Author: The New York Times
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The World Will Remember Troy's Name
Originally posted on September 21, 2011 by Eric Wingerter, Director of New Media, NAACP. Read Troy’s Last Words Tonight the State of Georgia has killed an innocent man. In recent weeks, we fought hard for the commutation of Troy Davis’ sentence. More than one million…
Author: NAACP